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Energy Education PhD Energy Summer School 2017 - Yes In My Backyard

Course Information

Programme

The summer school programme will start on 17 August 2017 and will end on 25 August 2017. Please see the preliminary programme below.

Thursday 17/08/2017
Location Harmoniegebouw "Onder de Bogen"(1314.00.14)
9:00- 10.30 Ice breaking Session by Arianthe Oudshoorn
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30

Energy: Basic Facts about Sizes and Sources by Prof. Harro Meijer, UG

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Integrated Energy Landscapes: Giving the Energy Transition a Place by Chris Zuidema, UG
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00 Regulating Shale Gas as a Transitional Fuel -  a Case Study on Legislative Complexities in the Energy Transition by Ruven Fleming, UG
18:30

Welcome dinner hosted by GSG

Friday 18/08/2017
Location Harmoniegebouw "Onder de Bogen"(1314.00.14)
9:00- 10.30

Students’ presentations

(4 students, 10 min + Q&A)
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 Political Aspects of Local Energy Transition: Shaking up The Hague & Brussels after Earthquakes in Groningen by Max van den Berg, UG
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 The Power of PV by Kees Hummelen, UG
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00 Fight, Flight, Fit or Follow: Survival Strategies for Energy Incumbents in a Changing World by Killian McCarthy, UG
19:00 Evening programme: The Breakthrough in Renewable Energy / film discussion film discussion by Jaap de Wilde, UoG at the Energy Academy Europe (room 0029.5159)
Saturday 19/08/2017
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Sunday 20/08/2017
15:00 - 17:00 Groningen city walk, guide Betsy Crane. Start at Academy Building
17:00 - 18:30 Welcome drinks, USVA (Munnekeholm 10)
Monday 21/08/2017
Location Harmoniegebouw "Onder de Bogen"(1314.00.14)
9:00 – 10.30 Students’ presentations
10.30 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12.30

Methods for Research on Bottom-up Initiatives in Energy: Participatory Action Research by Louise Meijering, UG

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Energy Transition in International Energy Markets: an Economic Perspective by Machiel Mulder, UG
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00

Getting from NIMBY to YIMBY with Social Impact Assessment by Frank Vanclay, UG

Tuesday 22/08/2017
Location Harmoniegebouw "Onder de Bogen"(1314.00.14)
9:00 – 10.30 Students’ presentations
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 A Nordic Transition to Electric Mobility: Sociotechnical Barriers and Future Expectations by Johannes Kester, Aarhus University
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Energy Transition in the City of Utrecht: Involvement of Local Stakeholders by Mirjam Harmelink, Municipality of Utrecht
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00 Responsible innovation across epistemological and ontological boundaries: the case of production of biogas in rural India, Govert Valkenburg, University of Leiden
Wednesday 23/08/2017
Location Harmoniegebouw "Onder de Bogen"(1314.00.14)
9:00 - 10.30 Students’ presentations
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30

Energy Security: Interrogating the Concept in the Arctic Context by Cecile Pelaudeix , Aarhus University

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch bags for the bus trip
Afternoon

The Eemshaven study trip

  • Onderdendam village
  • Land wind farm
  • Coal fired power plant
  • Delfzijl chemical plant
Thursday 24/08/2017
Location Harmoniegebouw "Onder de Bogen"(1314.00.14)
9:00 – 10.30 Students’ presentations
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 Community Initiatives for Renewable Energy: an Overview of Developments in Western Europe and the Netherlands by Marieke Oteman, Radboud University Nijmegen
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Psychological Perspective on Ways to Realize a Sustainable Energy Transition by Linda Steg, UG
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00 Innovation Driving the Energy Sector Transformation by Roland Roesch, IRENA
Friday 25/08/2017
Location Harmoniegebouw "Onder de Bogen"(1314.00.14)
9:00 – 10.30 Students’ presentations
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 The Elsewhere's Local - The Gendered Security Impacts of Biofuels in Northern Sierra Leone by Caitlin Ryan, oG
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30

Geo-data and Geospatial Technology by Arendjan van der Neut, Geodan

15:00 17:00

Photo assignment presentation & evaluation

17:00 Farewell reception
Saturday 26/08/2017
9:00 – 10.00 DEPARTURE

Lectures
  • Getting from NIMBY to YIMBY with Social Impact Assessment by Professor Frank Vanclay, University of Groningen
  • Urban Geopolitics and Energy Transition by Professor Jaap de Wilde, University of Groningen
  • Co-creating New Energy Systems by Dr. Anne Beaulieu, Energysense, University of Groningen
  • Integrated Energy Landscapes: Giving the Energy Transition a Place by Dr. Chris Zuidema, University of Groningen
  • Psychological Perspecitves on Ways to Realize a Sustainable Energy Transition by Linda Steg , University of Groningen
  • Methods for Research on Bottom-up Initiatives in Energy: Participatory Action Research by Dr. Louise Meijering , University of Groningen
  • A Nordic Transition to Electric Mobility: Sociotechnical Barriers and Future Expectations by Dr. Johannes Kester, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Responsible Innovation Across Epistemological and Ontological Boundaries: the Case of Production of Biogas in Rural India by Dr. Govert Valkenburg, Research Fellow, Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University
  • Energy Transition in the City of Utrecht: Involvement of Local Stakeholders by Mirjam Harmelink, "Utrechtse Energie", Municipality of Utrecht
  • The Power of PV by Professor Kees Hummelen, University of Groningen
  • Political Aspects of Local Energy Transition: Shaking up The Hague & Brussels after Earthquakes in Groningen by Max van den Berg, Honorary Professor of Global Governance and Sustainable Livelihood, University of Groningen
  • Fight, Flight, Fit or Follow: Survival Strategies for Energy Incumbents in a Changing World by Dr. Killian McCarthy, University of Groningen
  • Energy from a Natural Science Perspective by Professor Harro Meijer, RUG (tbc)
  • Regulating Shale Gas as a Transitional Fuel -  a Case Study on Legislative Complexities in the Energy Transition by Dr. Ruven Fleming
  • The Elsewhere's Local - The Gendered Security Impacts of Biofuels in Northern Sierra Leone by Dr. Caitlin Ryan
  • Energy Security: Interrogating the Concept in the Arctic Context by Dr. Cécile Pelaudeix, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Innovation Driving the Energy Sector Transformation by Roland Roesch, IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency)

More lectures will be announced soon.

EC/Certificate

5EC (more info will follow soon).

Participants who successfully complete the summer school will receive a certificate of attendance.

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